New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-06

at the head OF . great drvgoods house . director o
the Erie Railroad, OF the Brush Electric Light, Of
National hank and OF q OF other corporations. HI
has blunt way OF speaking bis age is perhaps hfty
and be has bushy whiskers which be parts in the mid
die and trains sdewise He told me the other day that
he believed that New-York ~Ould always extend its
business northerly along the line OF Broadway;
Recently, said he while disposlng OF house that
owned in hirtethst have had occasion to pass along
Broadway above Twenty -third-st- quito frequently.
There ID more business in that thoroughfare
Twenty third and Thrtythird Sta to-day than there
was between the Astor House and Csnalst; thirty
years ago, and in those days no one would have
thought that lower Broadway would become such q
centre OF business as 1t now Ia"
At the Hoffman House happened to meet Colonel
A. g. Hairy of Pttsburg, who is engaged in building
railroad Tor the development OF West Virginia proper
ties. He was in exceedingly happy mood, and on
nv nquiring the for his good feeling ne SAID
"Tho papers announce that the price OF Connesvliie
coke has gor up another 80 cents bushel little
over ago you could tuy it TOR ST. now 1t Is ~
venture to say that before another year rolls oy the
great bulk Of the best Connelsville coke has
. ss Of tn. out ss. and oua Ssse sS BS
tar the greater quantity Of the coke that yet re-
mains to be taken out IL lacking in the heat retaining
quality ou why tbs saoS Of Sood
nature springs from the tact that the railroad wme
myself and associates are building down through West
Of Which ~ equal to- the Gonnesvle coke and il their
prices keep going up and the coke running out shall
have all Pennsylvania coming down to Wost Virginia
for their fuel"
Willard Rice who at the head OF Of the largest
paper houses in New-England, was in New-York few
days ago, and bad chat with him about paper max.
ing. Amo ng other III nGs he said News print n the
quantity sold the metropolitan papers is furnished
at from Al to cents per pound, which Is less than
half what print cost before the war. In those
days rags the principal materials used in the
making of paper, and the price ranged from 10 to IL
cents. Now we make paper out OF wood pulp. which
has cheapened it materially. During the war we sold
paper high as 30 cents pound and considered 1t
low price. The methods OF manufacture have largely
copduced TO reduction in price OF book papers which
are still made OF rags The general market IN paper is
much lower than II was before the war New-England
Is the great centre OF the paper trade Of the try,
although factories located all the country"
Mr.. Rice ia Boston man, of those jolly. cOmpan-
ionable persons whom everybody knows and likes. He
lie round. plump and forid with gray mustache, gray
hair and twink ling eyes.
Ex-Delegate NJ. E. Post Of Wyoming Territory, who
noticed In Congress for his dimDutve and un
bounded energy has been here with Mr. Arrucke, the
coffee manufacturer and f. b. Thurber trying to in
duce them TO become interested in large ranches in
Colorado where the Norman Percberon horses are
bred. He told that the papers are signed BY winch
Mess g. Arbuckle aud Thnrber become interested 10
this venture and that will sail tor Europe in short
time pL rchase large Dum0el OF breeding stations
OF this grade OF animals Mr. Post has been in the
breeding business for number OF years and has
already several hundi cd horses on his ranch.